Websites
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Here's a short overview of her life and work, with links to some of her other famous (pun intended) poems.
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All the made-for-the-front-pages-gossip on Nye's life. (Actually, it's pretty tame.)
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Here Nye chats with Bill Moyers about life after September 11th as an Arab-American.
Audio
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This isn't quite the cinematic montage we imagined in our "Setting" section, but it's a pretty good version of the poem.
Video
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Naomi Shihab Nye reads her poem "One Boy Told Me" (with an introduction from Garrison Keillor) and reminds us that we are all poets.
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This one's long, but worthwhile.
Images
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Dying to know what she looks like?
Books
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A collection of Nye's poetry, featuring "Famous," and the words under it.
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A recent publication of Nye's short stories, just in case you're peaky for prose.
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A collection of poems for girls.